Posterior may refer to:
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Posterior (anatomy), the end of an organism opposite to its head
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Buttocks, as a euphemism
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Posterior horn (disambiguation) The term posterior horn (also dorsal horn, posterior cornu, dorsal cornu) may refer to:
*Posterior horn of lateral ventricle in the brain, which passes forward, laterally and slightly downward, from the corpus callosum into the occipital lobe
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Posterior probability
The posterior probability is a type of conditional probability that results from updating the prior probability with information summarized by the likelihood via an application of Bayes' rule. From an epistemological perspective, the posterior p ...
, the conditional probability that is assigned when the relevant evidence is taken into account
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Posterior tense Relative tense and absolute tense are distinct possible uses of the grammatical category of Grammatical tense, tense. Absolute tense means the grammatical expression of time reference (usually past tense, past, present tense, present or future tense ...
, a relative future tense
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